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Site plan of the Pompidou Mourguet School Complex in Lyon, showing the new right-angled elementary wing, retained nursery, enclosed playgrounds and block-scale landscape.
Axonometric drawing of the Pompidou Mourguet School Complex in Lyon, showing L-shaped masonry volumes enclosing planted playgrounds and covered walkways.
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Feb 2026

In Lyon’s 3rd arrondissement, just a few hundred metres from our office, work has just begun on the Pompidou–Mourguet school complex. A large site, currently vacant, will accommodate the rebuilt primary school, while the adjacent kindergarten is being retained and renovated.

Archival photo of children in the Menpenti school courtyard in Marseille, showing the original plaster façades, timber-framed windows and central plane tree.
Jan 2026

In Marseille, we have been selected—alongside contractor Fayat—for the design–build contract to rehabilitate the Menpenti School. In the heart of the city, our intervention on this late-19th-century school heritage is approached with respect and a subtle touch.

Wood-clad stepped volumes of the 142 Residential Units in Cognin, with staggered terraces and flat roofs facing a natural foreground and distant hills.
View from the 142 Residential Units in Cognin: metal parapet in the foreground, open fields and village, with snow-lined mountains under an overcast sky.
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Dec 2025

In Cognin, Savoie, work is in progress on the 142-housing units in the Grand Chambéry Metropolitan Area for Icade. The stepped massing is taking shape, and the six buildings open onto the park and the wider landscape.

Redeveloped Émile Loubet Tower in Saint-Étienne, a concrete grid high-rise with rooftop extension, framed by adjacent façades and foreground trees.
Redevelopment of the former Émile Loubet Tower in Saint-Étienne, showing the concrete grid façade and added glazed rooftop volume at sunset.
Open floor of the former Émile Loubet tower in Saint-Étienne, showing exposed steel roof grid, unfinished slab with voids and city landscape beyond.
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Nov 2025

In Saint-Étienne, the transformation of the former Loubet high-rise continues, alongside our colleagues from Vigier. The rooftop penthouse volume is complete, all 960 windows of the tower have been installed, and the assembly of the emergency staircase is complete.

Axonometric line drawing of the Tectoniques architects nursing home in Auxerre, showing a large multi‑storey complex composed of four perimeter wings forming two U‑shaped volumes linked by elevated central bars. The plan organizes patient rooms in repetitive window bays around internal courtyards, while the connecting blocks create covered circulation spines above a recessed, transparent ground floor entrance zone supported on pilotis. The image highlights the overall massing, roof geometry, and spatial hierarchy between the residential wings, shared central facilities, and open courtyards.
Perspective view of the Tectoniques architects’ nursing home in Auxerre, showing a symmetrical, four-storey timber-clad volume forming a U-shaped plan around a central forecourt. The two lateral wings frame a recessed, fully glazed central body that marks the main entrance and common areas, with vertical and horizontal mullions structuring the façade. The upper levels feature regular window bays set in a rhythmic grid of vertical cladding, while broad roof overhangs emphasize the horizontal lines of the building. In the foreground, a straight pedestrian axis leads to the entrance, bordered by low concrete benches, planted swales, and a mix of grasses, shrubs, and scattered rocks, creating a landscaped transition between public space and the healthcare facility. Residents and visitors, including people using wheelchairs, animate the outdoor spaces, indicating accessible circulation and use of the garden as an extension of the interior living areas.
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Oct 2025

In Auxerre, construction has started on a 321-room nursing home for Maison Départementale de Retraite de l’Yonne. The project consists of two pavilions arranged around patios and gardens, connected by a shared gallery within a landscaped park.

Process model of the Lyon tramway maintenance center by Tectoniques, showing a transverse section of the maintenance hall: rammed-earth base and retaining wall, steel portal frames, prefabricated floor slabs with integrated tracks, and a folded timber roof structure supporting a ventilated metal façade and roof build-up, illustrating the structural hierarchy and material interface between earth, steel, and timber.
Aerial view of the Tramway Maintenance Center in Lyon, showing a large rectilinear industrial complex integrated into a dense urban fabric, with extensive flat roofs partly covered by photovoltaic panels, open maintenance yards organized in orthogonal grids, and long, low technical buildings aligned along the tram tracks. The ensemble is framed by planted strips and tree-lined streets that buffer the facility from surrounding mid-rise residential blocks and mixed-use buildings, with the wider city and hills forming the background.
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Sept 2025

In Lyon 7th arrondissement, on the former Fagor Brandt factory site, studies are ongoing for the construction of a tram depot and maintenance centre for SYTRAL, in collaboration with our colleagues at BLP and Ingerop.

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